WHAT THEY WON

The year is only three months
old, but we’ve already seen a bunch of prizewinners
receiving generous sums of money.

Pankaj Mishra
(nonfiction) and Nadeem Aslam (fiction) were among
the eight winners of Yale’s Windham Campbell prize,
with each getting $150,000.

Joseph Paulraj of Stanford
received the $100,000 Marconi Prize for his pioneering
work involving MIMO (multiple input, multiple
output).

Two physicians—Abraham Verghese, also a
novelist, and Sanjeev Arora—were among the five recipients
of the Heinz Award, the others being social
entrepreneur Leila Janah, educator and entrepreneur
Salman Khan, and environmentalist Jonathan Foley.
Each received $250,000.

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